He wrote in a non-scholastic manner, with a lively style, and his works were approachable for the lay community in general.
However, there is no solid reasoning for any other identification (such as Augst/Augustodunensem praesulem near Basle, Augsburg/Augusta Vindelicorum in Swabia, or Augustinensis, from St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury), so his by-name has stuck.
It is certain that he was a monk and that he traveled to England and was a student of Anselm's for some time.
Toward the end of his life, he was in the Scots Monastery, Regensburg, Bavaria, probably living as a recluse.
A major scholar of Honorius is Valerie Flint, whose essays on him are collected in Ideas in the Medieval West: Texts and their Contexts (London, 1988).